Performance: Loose Booty

On the occasion of Christopher Wool, the Art Institute, together with Wool and John Corbett (SAIC), present the debut meeting of legendary jazz musicians Milford Graves and Joe McPhee, a reading by writer and punk progenitor Richard Hell, and James Nares’s film Street with a soundtrack performed live by Thurston Moore.

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